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One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.

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  1. n. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.
  2. n. A peddler; a hawker.
  3. n. a male itinerant peddler
  4. 1. One who word/buys">buys and word/sells">sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller. 2. A peddler; a hawker.
  5. n. United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845) n. archaic term for an itinerant peddler